Beginner Blogging Mistakes - Promoting For No ReasonWritten by Abdulrehman on December 2nd, 2009
Back in 2007 when I started off as a blogger, I was totally off-track. As you might already know that I started off making money on the internet with paid to click websites. Yes, what a waste of time. But since I was quite enthusiastic about making money back then, I wanted to create a blog to promote my referral links.
In paid to click websites, you look for referrals who can come, click ads and make money for you forever. Since posting a whole bunch of links at places to let people know about it was kind of a tedious job, instead I created a blog, filled it with reviews and my referral links and then promoted the blog instead.
My initial aim was to get visitors to it and then have them to sign up for the paid to click website. It wasn’t long until blogger disabled my account with all of the blogs including the one I was using to promote the referral links. However, I was doing that for a reason, I was actually making money by the efforts that I put into getting visitors to the blog.
These days, I see a bunch of fully seo loaded blogs with no ads. The thing is, there is no point in doing SEO on a blog if you don’t have intentions of making money from it. Straight up. Unless you have other aims for the blog.
This thing gets even more emphasis when your main source of traffic is referral traffic. You can always play around with organic traffic because you know that more will be coming later on and you aren’t really losing a lot of money in the long run.
But usually the referral traffic comes and goes. You don’t have a chance of them returning or more of them coming in to your website after you’ve done the promotion. In that case, it is complete nonsense to have no monetisation on your blog which completely makes it promoting for no reason.
The most widely know fact is: Traffic is money. However, you need to learn how to convert that traffic into money else you’ll end up in the blues with no money and probably a loss in form of hosting fees.
My advice to all new bloggers is that: Monetize your blog from day one! There is no harm, I repeat, no harm whatsoever from monetizing a blog. If you think it will discourage visitors, no it wouldn’t. If that was the case, Google wouldn’t have been the number one search engine. There are thousands of other search engines without advertisements.
It will have no impact on your SEO. Why it will have no effect on your SEO is because Google will always be in benefit if you have adsense on your blog. Since, when Google sends traffic to your website, it clicks the adsense ad. Not only do you get paid but Google gets paid as well. I know this theory sounds totally absurd but it was just to diversify your minds from not monetizing a new website. So yeah, you can laugh! 
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Back in 2007 when I started off as a blogger, I was totally off-track. As you might already know that I started off making money on the internet with paid to click websites. Yes, what a waste of time. But since I was quite enthusiastic about making money back then, I wanted to create a blog to promote my referral links.
In paid to click websites, you look for referrals who can come, click ads and make money for you forever. Since posting a whole bunch of links at places to let people know about it was kind of a tedious job, instead I created a blog, filled it with reviews and my referral links and then promoted the blog instead.
My initial aim was to get visitors to it and then have them to sign up for the paid to click website. It wasn’t long until blogger disabled my account with all of the blogs including the one I was using to promote the referral links. However, I was doing that for a reason, I was actually making money by the efforts that I put into getting visitors to the blog.
These days, I see a bunch of fully seo loaded blogs with no ads. The thing is, there is no point in doing SEO on a blog if you don’t have intentions of making money from it. Straight up. Unless you have other aims for the blog.
This thing gets even more emphasis when your main source of traffic is referral traffic. You can always play around with organic traffic because you know that more will be coming later on and you aren’t really losing a lot of money in the long run.
But usually the referral traffic comes and goes. You don’t have a chance of them returning or more of them coming in to your website after you’ve done the promotion. In that case, it is complete nonsense to have no monetisation on your blog which completely makes it promoting for no reason.
The most widely know fact is: Traffic is money. However, you need to learn how to convert that traffic into money else you’ll end up in the blues with no money and probably a loss in form of hosting fees.
My advice to all new bloggers is that: Monetize your blog from day one! There is no harm, I repeat, no harm whatsoever from monetizing a blog. If you think it will discourage visitors, no it wouldn’t. If that was the case, Google wouldn’t have been the number one search engine. There are thousands of other search engines without advertisements.
It will have no impact on your SEO. Why it will have no effect on your SEO is because Google will always be in benefit if you have adsense on your blog. Since, when Google sends traffic to your website, it clicks the adsense ad. Not only do you get paid but Google gets paid as well. I know this theory sounds totally absurd but it was just to diversify your minds from not monetizing a new website. So yeah, you can laugh!
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 17 years old, and live in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. I'm in Grade 11 studying in Saint Mary's Academy. I started this blog to share my money making experiences with others through the internet.
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“Monetize your blog from day one!” - Absolutely agree with you. There is no point to wait for “bigger traffic”. Some blogging gurus say that your blog will look cheap with ads and without content, brand, reputation, etc. It’s just wrong. Put anything you can. AdSense is OK from the beginning. Then switch to affiliate offers. Try everything and find out what works and what doesn’t. This is the way how it should be.
I think account loss was really painful. But there are a couple of workarounds how to restore your content. One of them is Google cash. Search site:[domain] and click Cashed. Then copy-past. The trick is not ideal and very time consuming, but it works. Of course, not applicable for big websites without automation. Another one is to use RSS readers. For example, Google Reader. The idea is that posts stay in reader after deletion
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closing the popup window for subscribig to your blog was a mistake few minutes back i did
but after reading about page of yours i subscribed to your blog with the email id i used for commenting
will add u on SB sites as well soon. cya
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Monetizing a blog as soon as you started promoting it is a great advice. I have seen so many blogs talking about making money but too afraid to put ads on their sites.
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Monetizing on your blog from your start can be a great idea but it should be done in a way that the readers can still enjoy the content without being annoyed by all the ads.
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Monetizing your blog from the start is the way to go. As your blog grows, you can initiate changes to further grow your income.
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I was under the same impression of brand and loyalty and blah blah, glad you posted this.
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My knowledge in monetizing my blogs are not enough to sustain regarding what I know. I have noticed and red your post and it gives me a lot to learn to.
Very much appreciated and great post you’ve got here.
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I agree that monetizing a blog from the start is a good move. It cost nothing (maybe few minutes of life) and benefits could be very small but also very good. It is always good to always try get the best things and not the worse.
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i always was afraid to monetize my blog before but recently i have started and i can already see the advantages!
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I totally agree. I have wasted months and possibly over a year to make money on the blog itself. Finally I’m getting it.
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It think monetizing blogs is “usually” a good idea. If you are going to spend a lot of time, energy, and resources getting it ranked in the search engines and marketing it other ways to build up the traffic then it should definitely be monetized. However, there are instances when you might have a blog for personal reasons or just to help send traffic/links to your other main blogs. In that case I see no reason why you must monetize it.
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I was very afraid of Google Adsense on one of my blogs which was intended to promote an idea, and not earn money. I was afraid that people won’t take my blog seriously if they see I have adsense, dismissing all the information, thinking that it was only written for making money. I am glad to know that it is ok, although I have lost some possible income. Thank you for the advice!
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